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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






2. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






3. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






4. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






5. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






6. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






7. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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8. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






9. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






10. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






11. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






12. The main character of a literary work.






13. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






14. A three-line stanza.






15. The dictionary meaning of a word.






16. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






17. A four line stanza in a poem.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






20. The organizational form of a literary work.






21. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






22. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






23. A strong pause within a line.






24. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






25. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






26. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






27. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






28. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






29. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






30. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






31. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






32. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






33. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






34. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






35. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






36. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






37. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






38. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






39. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






40. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






41. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






42. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






43. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






44. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






45. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






46. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






47. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






48. The selection of words in a literary work.






49. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






50. A brief witty poem - often satirical.